Selective transfer record assembly



Sept. 1937. s. LANKTON v SELECTIVE TRANSFER RECORDASSEMBLY Filed June 24, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet l Sept. 7, 1937. s LANKTON 2,092,127

SELECTIVE TRANSFER RECORD ASSEMBLY Filed June 24, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 111.1!- enio loads 5. 6111/51 Patented Sept. 7, 1937 NlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

slgnor to American Sales Niagara Falls, N. Y.,

Book Company, Inc.,

a corporation of Delaware Application June 24, 1935, Serial No. 28,131

13 Claims.

This invention relates to manifolding record devices and with respect to its more specific features to a manifolding packet wherewith, in addition to manifolding of inscription, the copies of 5 inscription are related to each other in a manner to promote their comparison and manipulation in the obtaining of business data and statistical information of various sorts.

One object of the invention is the provision of v only may a complete list of original entries be.

duplicated on a single sheet by the use of transfer material but simultaneously with the production of the duplicate of the complete list copies of the individual entries or items making up the complete list are made on difierent sheets, each different sheet containing only an individual entry or a portion only of the complete list of entries.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a simple, practical and efilcient manifolding packet wherewith the complete original list of entries may be divided or distributed among a smaller or larger number of different copy sheets without necessitating an equally large number of sheets ofcarbon or other transfer material.

Another object is the provision of a practicaling itself to the comparison of entries manifolded thereon and to the manipulation of individual entries relative to each other.

Other objects of the invention will be in part pointed out in the following detailed description of certain illustrative but preferred embodiments of the invention, and will be in part obvious in connection therewith.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties, and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will indicated in the claims. i

For a more complete understanding of the nature and objects of theinvention, reference is had to the following detailed description of the illustrative embodiments, and to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a, manifolding packet embodying the invention, the thickness, of the sheets being exaggerated for clearer depictlon;

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but in which certain upper list sheets of the packet are shown parted from the lower item sheets, for clearer illustration;

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic perspective view of the packet, the sheets being shown spaced a considerable distance apart for clearer disclosure;

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic, side elevation of the packet; t

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the duplicate list sheets of the packet.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings, the packet illustrated includes paper record sheets associated with carbon or other transfer material in relatively superposed relation with each other,-so that inscription on the original sheet of the packet is duplicated on. anunderlying sheet or sheets through the instrumentality of the transfer material. The sheets of the packet may be secured together at one side of the packet and be free at the opposite side so as readily to be lifted up or torn. from the packet or otherwise manipulated.

The numeral I indicates the original list sheet, L

or original record sheet, and numeral 2 indicates a duplicate list sheet or duplicate record sheet. Although only a single duplicate list sheet 2 is illustrated in the drawings, it is to be understood that any number may be employed which is desired and practical for manifolding inscription. The original and duplicate list sheets are shown as having usual printed forms which are to be filled in. As illustrated, these printed forms are invoice forms and the original and duplicates are printed with the name of the company and the number of the invoice, as at 3, and with any other desired data.

The original and the duplicate list sheets each has a space t for listing a series of entries or items line by line one beneath the other. In the unused condition of the packet, this space is blank to be filled in with the required data. For illustrative purposes this space in the drawings is shown as having been filled in on the typewriting ma,- chine with the desired data, as eggs, cream, cheese, etc., but it is to be understood that any other practical manner of inscribing the entries may be used without departing from the invention. Typing, however, is specially efiective when a. large number of carbon copies is desired; also the line spacing mechanism of the typewriting machines assures uniform spacing of the entries line by line.

Inscription on the original list sheet I may be transferred to duplicate list sheet 2 by coating the 5 back of the original sheet I with transfer material. It is preferred, however, to locate a separate transfer-sheet 5 between the sheets I and 2, the dimension of the transfer sheet being such as to transfer to the duplicate list sheet 2 all data inscribed on the original sheet I. When more than one duplicate list'sheet is employed, additional transfer sheets may be used. It will now be perceived that when the original and duplicate list sheets are in relatively superposed relation to each other and to the transfer sheet, they provide an upper manifolding set, and the complete list of entries or items inscribed line by line in the space 4 of the original list sheet I will be copied onto the duplicate list sheet 2.

The numerals 6, I, 6, '9 indicate a plurality of item sheets or additional record sheets, each having a portion or record area disposed to receive inscription by the making of an entry on the original sheet I, these record areas, however,

being so arranged and adapted that a portion only of the complete list of entries on the original sheet will be-copied onto a single one of said additional sheets. In this wise the complete list of a plurality of entries on the original list sheet 0 I will be divided among these additional record sheets. gether will contain the complete list of items, but each single sheet of the additional sheets will contain only one item or only a portion of the complete series of items on the original sheet I.

- It is within the broader scope of this invention to arrange the item sheets in any practical manner with relation to the original sheet I by which division or distribution of said complete 'list of entries among the item sheets is efiected by the making of the list on the original sheet I. A preferred practical and efficient construction and arrangement for the purpose comprehends superposition of these item sheets 6, I, 8, 9 relative to eachother and in such a manner that each will have a portion disposed to present a record surface or record area in superposed transfer relation with one item line only of the series of items on the original list sheet. As illustrated these record surfaces are provided by extending the margins along one edge of the diiferent item sheets 6, I, 8, 9 one beyond the other to provide a plurality of record margins l0. These record margins in the lower item sheets extend in the same direction and project from beneath the next adjacent upper record sheet. Thus each successive record margin presents its upper record surface or area alongside the other record margins and out of superposed registry therewith and so is thus adapted to receiye transfer inscription from the original record sheet independently of the adjacent record margins. This original sheet I thus occupies transfer relation with a plurality of areas of different item sheets, being thus effective to form a complete unitary list whereas on the item sheets this list is divided. In the drawings four items or entijes-eggsycream cheese; Limb. cheese;- 19 doz., and their respective amounts-are listed on the original listsheet I,

these items being duplicated on the duplicate list sheet 2, and on as many duplicate list sheets as are employed. It will be clearly perceived (Fig.

2) that only a portion of the complete list is duplicated in either item sheet 6 or 1 or #6 or 9, 7 and that in the present embodiment there are as Thus these additional sheets taken tomany item sheets as there are items to be typed on the list sheet, a separate item sheet being used for each item.

For copying on the item sheets 6, I, 8, 9 the items listed on the original sheet, any suitable ar- 5 rangement of transfer material may be employed. However, in order to minimize expense and simplify the construction, a carbon transfer sheet II is disposed to lie in relatively superposed transfer relation wlth a plurality of the record mar- 10 gins I0. As illustrated, this transfer sheet H overlies and spans a plurality of said record margins of diiferent item sheets and lies between the lowermost list sheet 2 and the uppermost item sheet 6, and is adapted directly to contact said 15 margins- Furthermore, there is no transfer material directly underlying either of said record margins In of the item sheets and effective to transfer inscription to other of the item sheets having said record margins. In this wise there 20 is assurance that the copy of inscription on one record margin In will be confined to that item sheet and will not appear on another unintended item sheet.

- Viewing Fig. 2 it is clearly seen that the trans- 25 fer sheet II, which effects transfer to the record margins of the item sheets, is the lowermost sheet of the upper manifolding set of original and duplicate list sheets. Where the end l2 of this lower transfer sheet overlies the series of '3 record margins In, I O, it may be readily grasped together with and as apart of the list sheets I and 2 and stripped from the item sheets 6, I, 8, 9, thus leaving the item sheets as a unit connected together at one edge as will appear. Or if de- 35 sired, and, for some purposes, the carbon sheet ll, may remain attached on the top of the pack of item sheets as a unitary part thereof ready to cooperate with the record margins l0.

I The sheets of the manifolding packet may be 40 connected together at one edge of the packet, and while any suitable and practical connecting means compatible with the purposes of this invention may be employed, it is preferred to paste the sheets together. To. this end all the record 45 sheets and transfer sheets are pasted together at the edge l3 of the packet, the record sheets each preferably having lines of weakness, as perforations, for readily detaching the respective record sheets from the packet. Preferably these 50 weakening lines are parallel to the pasted edge of the packet. Although the transfer sheets 5 and H, may also have weakening lines it is preferred to omitsuch lines in the transfer sheets. The weakening lines I4, IS in the original and 55 duplicate list sheets I and 2 are relatively close to the pasted edge I 3 of the packet and in superposed registry with each other so that the detached list sheets will be of the same length one with the other. 0

The itemsheets 6, I, 8, 9 are of different length measured from the pasted line or edge l3 of the packet, and as it is very desirable that all of the item sheets shall be of equal length when detached from the' packet, the weakening lines I6, 5 l1, l8, IS in the item sheets in the present embodiment are at different distances from the pasted edge l3, but in each item sheet the respective detaching weakening line is the same distance from the free end or record margin. l 0 in 70 all the item sheets. I I

For practical purposes it is found important to be able readily to strip the upper manifolding set of original and duplicate list sheets from the lower set of item sheets. 'To this end the sheets at 2|, also along the edge l3 of the packet.

of the upper set are pasted relatively strongly together, as by a paste line 20, continuous along the edge l3, whereas the item sheets are less strongly held as by being spot-pasted together as Thus the lower transfer sheet II is more strongly attached to the lower list sheet 2 than to the upper item sheet 6.

Not only is the original invoice sheet provided with the invoice number as indicated at 3, in Fig. 1, but list sheet and also the item sheets may be marked with the same invoice number. Thus when these several sheets are detached and distributed the data thereon may'always be identified with the matter or invoice to which it relates.

In the practical use of the improved manifolding assembly or packet, entries are made upon the original record or list sheet I on the lines or spaces provided therefor, by means of a typewriter or by any other desirable means. Each individual item thus entered will be transferred by means of the transfer sheet 5 to the duplicate list sheet 2, and also by means of the transfer sheet H to one of the item sheets 6, l, 8 or 9. 'Similarly, the entry of each additional item on the original sheet I, on the lines respectively provided therefor, will betransferred to the duplicate record sheet 2, and to one of the item sheets. Due to the relatively projecting inscription receiving areas 10 of the item sheets, it will be seen that each individual item entry will be transferred to one only of the item sheets, and that each item sheet will receive an inscription of one item only. The same transfer sheet H serves for each of the inscription areas It), and may be of sufiicient extent to overlap as many of these areas as desired.

After all the items of the current transaction have been entered as described, the inscribed assembly may be very readly separated into two parts by detaching or severing the relatively weak or spot pasting 2| between the top item sheet 6 and the lower sheet ll of the upper part, as will be understood upon reference to Fig. 2. For the purpose of assisting in the segregation of the upper and -lower parts of the assembly, the edge portions of the sheets of the upper part may be relatively offset from the adjacent edge portions of the sheets of the lower part. Thus notches aligned with each other may be formed in the margins of either the upper or lower part of the assembly, thus exposing the adjacent margins of the other part, whereby said exposed margins may be readily grasped, and the upper and lower parts segregated, whereupon the two parts can be detached from each other by severing the attachment 2i. Such notches may be formed in the item sheets of the lower assembly part just above the area ID of the upper item sheet 6 so as I m, to avoid mutilation to the inscription areas of any of the sheets of either the lower or the upper part of the assembly.

As shown, the lower ends of the list sheets I and 2 may project slightly beyond the adjacent 5 edges of the carbon sheets, thus providing a selective grip formation, whereby the list sheets may be grasped to the exclusion of the carbons, and thus selectively severed along their weakened lines it from the binding stub and from the assembly. The carbons and stub may then be discarded, and the inscribed record sheets separately dispatched for conveying the information carried thereby.

After detachment from the assembly of the lower part carrying the item sheets, said sheets may be detached from the binding stub by detachment along the respective weakened severance lines I6, ll, l8, after which they will be separated and assorted according to the commodities or items inscribed thereon. All sheets bearing like items will then be grouped together for proper accounting and filing. Since all of the item sheets are of the same length by virtue of the offset relation of the'severance lines I6, ll, l8, handling and filing are made easy.

In some cases where practicable, segregation and sorting of the item sheets according to items inscribed thereon, may be facilitated by coloring these sheets differently so that each item or commodity has its own distinctive color. Thus as shown in the drawings, the item sheet 6 may be yellow, the sheet 1 pink, the sheet 8 white, etc. With this arrangement, each class of items or commodities will be written on a certain definite line or space of the original list sheet I, and the inscription thereof will be accordingly transferred to an item sheet of a distinctive color which will be regarded as characteristic of that particular class of commodity. This arrangement greatly facilitates the sorting of the inscribed item sheets according to classes of goods involved in the various transactions. However, the invention is adapted for use, and has a very great utility, in cases where all or a major portion of the item sheets are of the same color.

Sincecertain changes may be made in the above article and different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A manifolding packet of the character described including, in combination, an original sheet, a number of connected, detachable, underlying record sheets, transfer material disposed simultaneously to eifect copying on to one or another of said underlying sheets of an entry made on said original sheet, said underlying sheets having along one edge thereof relatively offset item margins positioned side by side in contact relation with the transfer material so as to divide among said item margins a plurality of entries made on said original sheet, said underlying sheets having weakening lines positioned in spaced relation with each other along the packet to define substantially equal sheet lengths for the respective detached copy sheets.

2.'A manifolding packet of the character described including, in combination, a plurality of relatively superposed record sheets the margins along one edge of which extend one beyond the other to form a plurality of offset record margins positioned side by side, an original sheet in relatively superposed transfer relation to a plurality of said record margins, said record sheets connected together at one side of the packet and each having a weakening line parallel to said side for detachment from the packet, the distance from each weakening line to the outer edge of the corresponding offset record margin remote from said connection being substantially constant in the difierent record sheets.

3. A manifolding packet of the character described including, in combination, an original list sheet and one or more duplicate list sheets in superposed relation to each other, one or more transfer sheets disposed to transfer a list of inscriptions on said original list sheet to said duplicate list sheet, or sheets, a plurality of relatively superposed item sheets lying below said list sheets, the margins along one edge of said 5 item sheets extending one beyond the other to form a plurality of offset record margins positioned side by side along the packet, a one time transfer sheet bound into the packet and lying between the lowermost list sheet and the upper- 1 most item sheet andalso lying across and adapted to contact a plurality of said record margins of diiferent item sheets, said list sheets and item sheets being connected together at one side of the packet and having weakening lines for de- 15 tachment from the packet, .the weakening lines of different list sheets being in superposed registry with each other, the weakening lines. in the item sheets being respectively at the same distance from the outer edges of the corresponding 20 offset record margins.

4. A manifolding packet of the character de scribed including, in combination, two manifold-,

35 ing sets in superposed relation to each other and 0 detachably connected together at their margins along one edge of the packet, each set including a plurality of relatively superposed record sheets connected together, the connection be- 40 tween the sheets of one of said sets being relatively stronger than that between said sets, the lowermost sheet of the upper of said sets being a transfer sheet.

6. A manifolding packet of the character de- 45 scribed including, in combinatiOn, two manifolding sets in superposed relation to each other and detachably connected together at their margins along one edge of the packet, each set including a plurality of relatively superposed record sheets 0 connectedtogether, the connection between the sheets of one of said sets being relatively stronger than that between said sets, the lowermost sheet of the upper of said sets being a transfer sheet, the margins of the record sheets along 55 an edge of the lower set remote from said connection extending one beyond the other in the same direction to form a plurality of record margins side by side adapted to contact said lowermost transfer sheet. 1

7., A manifolding packet of the character described including, in combination, a plurality of relatively superposed record sheets each having an item margin, at least one under sheet having its item margin projecting from beneath the 65 next adjacent upper sheet, a carbon sheet overlying said margins of different record sheets, each said record sheet'having a weakening line of detachment at the same distance from the outer edge of the corresponding item margin in 70 all said sheets.

8. A manifolding packet of the character described including, in combination, an original sheet, a number of' connected, detachable, underlying record sheets, transfer material disposed 75th efiect copying on to one or another of said underlying sheets of an entry made on said original sheet, said underlying sheets having along one edge thereof relatively cifset item margins positioned side by side in contact relation with the transfer material so as to divide among said item margins a plurality of entries made on said original sheet, said underlying sheets having weakening lines positioned in spaced relation with each other along the packet to define substantially equal sheet lengths for the respective detached copy sheets, said item margins being of different color.

9. A manifolding packet including, in combiunit, said second manifolding unit having a plurality of item record sheets in superposed relation with each other, the margins along one edge of succeeding underlying item sheets extending in the same direction from beneath the respective adjacent margins of the preceding item sheets to provide a plurality of item receiving margins positioned side by side along the packet, each of said item margins lying in overlapping manifolding relation with said original and duplicate record sheets and with said second transfer sheet whereby inscriptions made at spaced parts of the original record sheet will be selectively transferred to the individual item margins, the sheets of said two manifolding units being respectively bound together so as to remain attached together after the two units are detached from each other.

10. A manifolding packet including, in combination, two manifolding units in relatively superposed relation for ready separation from each other, the first of said manifolding units having an original and a duplicate record sheet and two transfer sheets, one of said transfer sheets being positioned to transfer inscriptions to the duplicate record sheet and the second transfer sheet being positioned to transfer inscriptions to the second manifolding unit, said second manifolding unithaving a'plurality of item record sheets in superposed relation with each other, a binding in which said item sheets are bound, the margins along one edge of succeeding underlying item sheets extending in the same direction from beneath the respective adjacent margins of the preceding item sheets to provide a plurality of item receivingmargins positioned side by side along the packet, each of said item margins lying in overlapping manifolding relation with said original and duplicate record sheets and with said second transfer sheet whereby inscriptions made at spaced parts of the original record sheet will be selectively transferred to the individual item-margins, and weakened severance lines in said item sheets positioned at different distances from the binding whereby the item sheets may be severed from said binding. 11. A manifolding packet including, in combination, two manifolding units detachably attached together in relatively superposed relation for ready separation from each other, the first of said manifolding units having an original and a duplicate record sheet and two transfer sheets,

one 'of said transfer sheets being positioned to transfer inscriptions to the duplicate record sheet and the second transfer sheet being positioned to transfer inscriptions to the second manifolding unit, said second manifolding unit having a plurality of item record sheets in superposed relation with each other, the margins along one edge of succeeding underlying item sheets extending in the same direction from beneath the respective adjacent margins of the preceding item sheets to. provide a plurality of item receiving margins positioned side by side along the packet, each of said item margins lying in overlapping manifolding relation with said original and duplicate record sheets and with said second transfer sheet whereby inscriptions made at spaced parts of the original record sheet will be selectively transferred to the individual item margins, the sheets of said two manifolding units being respectively bound together so as to remain attached together after the two units are detached from each other, and selective grip formations and weakened severance lines in said first manifolding unit whereby the sheets may be selectively separated from the binding.

12. A manifolding packet including, in combination, two manifolding units in relatively superposed relation for ready separation from each other, the first of said manifolding units having an original and a duplicate record sheet and two transfer sheets, one of said transfer sheets being positioned to transfer inscriptions to the duplicate record sheet and the second transfer sheet being positioned to transfer inscriptions to the second manifolding unit, said second manifolding unit having a plurality of item record sheets in superposed relation with each other, a binding in which said item sheets are bound, the margins along one edge of succeeding underlying item sheets extending in the same direction from beneath the respective adjacent-margins of the preceding item sheets to provide a plurality of item receiving margins positioned side by side along the packet, each of said item margins lying in overlapping manifolding relation with said original and duplicate record sheets and with said second transfer sheet whereby inscriptions made at spaced parts of the original record sheet will be selectively transferred to the individual item margins, weakened severance lines in said item sheets positioned at difierent distances from the binding whereby the item sheets may be severed from said binding, and selective grip formations and weakened severance lines in said first manifolding unit whereby the sheets may be selectively separated from the binding. 5

13. A manifolding packet including, in combination, two manifolding units detachably attached together in relatively superposed relation for ready separation from each other, .the first of said manifolding units having an original record sheet and a transfer sheet positioned to transfer inscriptions to the second manifolding unit, said second manifolding unit having a plurality of item record sheets in superposed relation with each other, said item sheets having along one edge thereof item margins positioned side by side along the packet, each of said item margins lying in overlapping manifolding relation with said transfer sheet whereby inscriptions made at spaced parts of the original record sheet will be selectively transferred to the individual item margins, the sheets of said two manifolding units being respectively bound together so as to remain attached together after the two units are detached from each other, and weakened severance lines in said item sheets positioned at different distances from the binding whereby the said sheets may be severed from the binding.

LOUIS S. LANKTON. 

